Crooks and Liars

Friday February 8, 2008 09:00 pm

CNN: The Deadly Plight of Women in Post-Saddam Iraq

By Bill W.

CNN's Arwa Damon Reports. Viewer discretion is advised

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MoxieGrrrl: So what exactly have we done for these people?

The images in the Basra police file are nauseating: Page after page of women killed in brutal fashion -- some strangled to death, their faces disfigured; others beheaded. All bear signs of torture.

The women are killed, police say, because they failed to wear a headscarf or because they ignored other "rules" that secretive fundamentalist groups want to enforce. [...]

"We thought there would be freedom and democracy and women would have their rights. But all the things we were promised have not come true. There is only fear and horror."<!--startclickprintexclude-->

Is this what John McCain means when he says ‘By golly’ we’re ‘winning’ in Iraq?